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W. Ralph Eubanks is author of When It's Darkness on the Delta: How America's Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land, which will be published January 13, 2026 by Beacon Press. He is also the author of three other works of nonfiction: A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape, Ever is a Long Time: A Journey into Mississippis Dark Past, and The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South. Eubanks has contributed articles to The Washington Post Outlook and Style sections, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the Virginia Quarterly Review, The American Scholar, and National Public Radio. He is a recipient of a 2021 Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellowshi ...more

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	Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19 by Jennifer Haupt (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Edoardo Ballerini (Narrator), January LaVoy (Narrator) 3.81 avg rating — 891 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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New book, A Place Like Mississippi

My next book, A Place Like Mississippi, will be released March 16, 2021 by Timber Press, a division of Workman publishing. Here is the publisher's description and a link to the publisher's page about the book:

A palpable connection to the landscapes of Mississippi can be felt in the work of the state’s many lauded writers. This connection to the land runs deep—across onerous lines of class, gender, Read more of this blog post »

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